Connecting the Management of Data to the NYS and Local District Assessment Systems

Joan Thompson, SuperintendentHendrick Hudson School District

November 2, 2005

Essential Questions to Focus Today’s Presentation

What are the major components of a district’s assessment program?

How can we best use data from the warehouse in the district, school, program and classroom level?

How can the data be managed? How can the assessment data be made

meaningful for administrators and teachers?

Five Reasons Not to Develop a Data Warehouse

5-You want to save money for your school or district

4-You have no time to work with data3-You want more data reports from NYSED2-You do not know the current

assessments used in your district K-121-You want to increase your popularity

with your staff

Five Reasons to Develop and Utilize a Data Warehouse

5-Using the current system of permanent record cards is less then efficient

4-Assessment comes from multiple sources

3-Teachers utilize their skills to better understand students needs and revise their instruction

2-A data warehouse assists in improving program effectiveness

1-A data warehouse works to improve student achievement

Triangular Model

Instruction

Curriculum Assessment

performance

portfoliotraditional

Standardized testing Traditional classroom assessments Locally developed performance

assessments Portfolio NYSED assessments including regents

What Are the Major Components of a District’s Assessment Program ?

District Goals Utilize Assessment Data

Monitor Students’ Progress

Assessment

(performance, portfolio and traditional)

Evaluate Students’ Achievement

Informs teachers decisions

about instruction

Evaluate Program

Revise Program

Improve Instruction

Districtwide applications

Value added statistics along with state and national data

Schoolwide applications

Program decisions Item analysis – 4th grade Science Standardized tests - Reading Academic Intervention Services Enrichment/Gifted Services Communication with

parents/community

Program or classroom applications

Culture of data inquiry Inform instruction Grouping Student profiles Uses in secondary school Next steps

What can administrators learn about students?

Profile groups of students for a specific purpose or program

Assist in completing required reports (local or SED)

Review trends in order to evaluate program design and/or materials

What can teachers learn about their students?

Academic profile for each student

Informs instruction based on years of assessment data

Provides a picture of the range of students’ academic abilities as portrayed through the assessments

Currently Available Data

Reports

NYS Assessments

Local Assessments

Standardized Tests

Regents and Course Grades

Cognos Upfront – Welcome Screen

Local Assessments by School

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Individual Student Reports

INDIVIDUAL STUDENT REPORTS

COGNOS QUERY

Provides for customizing reports in a user friendly way

Ability to select the data fields you wish to explore

Adds possibilities of graphs, charts, etc.

Select the columns in Student Grades you would like to display

Use Split View to see both graph and data